Vintage Fabric Accessories: Stylish Creations from Recycled Fabrics

Kaoru Ishikawa

This fabulous book is packed full of ideas and techniques for turning your precious vintage and recycled fabrics into gorgeous handbags and accessories. Sixty-threeprojects, ranging from sturdy tote bags to dainty coin purses, and evening bagsto fabric-covered buttons, are presented with easy-to-follow directions andplenty of inspirational photos, including a selection of fabrics from theauthors own collection.

Practical ideas for using a variety of fabrics,colours, and embellishments, tips on fabric selection and other useful tidbits,make this a complete resource for the accessories enthusiast.

Detailed descriptions of tools, materials, and basic techniques will get you started,while advanced techniques, such as attaching handbag hardware and linings, are explained in detailed step-by-step photos to give your projects the perfect finish.

ISBN: 9781864704099

Dimensions: 297mm x 210mm

Page Count: 96

Publication Date: Sep 2010

Colour: Full Colour

Embroidery Magazine (US)

Kaoru Ishikawa takes old scraps of fabric and revitalizes them into accessories that no one else will have. There are lots of pictures to inspire you, backed up with solid instructions and templates for your projects.

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Coffee Culture: hot coffee + cool spaces is a full-color presentation of coffee shops crafting great coffee in interesting spaces with good design aesthetics. The author has selected thirty-three coffee shops located in cities across the United States, including Ann Arbor, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and Seattle.

Photography by an eclectic group of photographers captures the feel and personality of each coffee shop. The concept of space is often extended from the shop interior to the neighborhood—interweaving coffee, art, architecture, design, and historic preservation.

The book showcases coffee shops located in historic buildings, modern architecture, an art museum, an arcade, a courtyard, a former loading dock and even a reclaimed cargo shipping container—but the common thread is an appreciation for great coffee in spaces that invite human interaction and create memories through good design.

ISBN: 9781864706208

Dimensions: 254mm x 254mm

Page Count: 224

Publication: April 2016

Colour: Full Colour

Robert Schneider received degrees in political science and finance and investments—providing the foundation for a successful career in capital markets including research, marketing/business development and working with start-up/early-stage companies. He currently pursues his lifelong interest in art and design. coffee shops: hot coffee + cool spaces is his first book. He lives and studies (art ǀ architecture ǀ design ǀ photography) in Minneapolis, United States.

Eco Packaging Now

Edited by Tony Ibbotson and Peng Chong

Nowadays, the sales range of goods spans across the world. It is not difficult for us to drink Russian vodka in New Zealand or taste fruits from Brazil in Japan. Packaging exists everywhere. It exists on the shelves in supermarkets, in our fridges, cabinets, gifts, and cosmetics; even some fruits of farms need packaging. However, with today’s environmental issues becoming increasingly prominent, reducing waste, saving energy, and improving sustainability of the overall products and creating green packaging have become hot topics in the packaging industry. So how do designers find ecological ways to design packaging strategies that protect the product while ensuring that the packaging is more sustainable and not harmful for environment? Contemporary designers are finding unique and multi-functional ways to manipulate materials, structures and uses to make packaging recyclable, biodegradable, and reusable. More than 100 brilliant ideas from all over the world are showcased in this book, which are presented in insightful detail with glorious full-color photography throughout. This book will inspire both design creativity and reveal ways to help counter significant environmental issues facing the world today.

ISBN: 9781864707038

Dimensions: 260mm x 215mm

Page Count: 248

Publication Date: September 2016

Colour: Full Colour

Tony Ibbotsonhas a career spanning more than 25 years, which has seen him work across the globe in places such as Japan, United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. In that time he has worked with some of the best agencies on international accounts including Mars, Walkers, Diageo, and Unilever. In 2005 Tony started The Creative Method, an agency built on the philosophy of big ideas and the best execution. Its clients include Smirnoff Vodka, Johnnie Walker, Baileys, Suntory, Campari, Wild Turkey, Skyy Vodka, Unilever, Coca-Cola, and PepsiCo.

Peng Chong, the art director of Pesign Design, works on making creative designs with globalized graphs and thoughts to ensure that the branding and packaging design has foresightedness and artistry in the market competition. His works have won multiple international awards, including the Red Dot Design Award and World Star Packaging Awards. In 2014, his works Qian’s Gift won Pentawards Packaging Design Award: Food-Platinum Award (the top award of food packaging design).

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Today’s travellers and vacationers are looking for more than the standard offerings of accommodations and services, and they often require places that speak to their senses of living and experiencing. In contrast to the ordinary hotel, guest houses combine unique and attractive features and thematic concepts that are intended to imbue special appeal for visitors. Hosts aim to provide guests with more than just accommodation options and seek to generate an environment that offers a cultural experience by means of more personalized interaction and service. The guest house offers a distinctive experience and addresses architecture and interior design as critical methods of contributing to an alternative or ideal lifestyle. Escape: Designing the Modern Guest House showcases 43 distinctive and well-known projects from around the world, created by architects, designers, and artists. These exclusive works have visual and spatial impact and represent the essence of new guest house design. This book highlights some of the most outstanding architectural strategies and displays the variations of spatial experience through the interplay of design elements. It provides strong reference material for design professionals and students in architecture, interior design, and related design fields, and those looking to revamp their guest house accommodation offerings with a contemporary 21st-century focus.

ISBN: 9781864707045

Dimensions: 290mm x 245mm

Page Count: 288

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Shanshan Qi is founder and principle of STUDIO QI Architects, an international cutting-edge architectural design firm who is a member of the American Institute of Architects. Qi has received a Master’s from Harvard Graduate School of Design in Architecture in the United States, and achieved a Distinction for her Bachelor of Architecture degree from Columbia University. She was formerly with internationally renowned architectural firm Foster and Partners in New York, responsible for its China division, and later worked with top international architect Renzo Piano, among others. She has won several international honors, and has played a key role in the selections for two Pritzker Prizes for Architecture winners.

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The highly competitive world of retail branding and brand packaging is evident in the increasing demand for creating unique, eye-catching and recognizable fashion packaging designs.

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This book will be a source of inspiration for design aficionados, fashion, advertising and merchandise managers, students, brand and retail managers, and educators in the fashion design, product design and graphic design fields.

ISBN: 9781864706802

Dimensions: 285mm x 205mm

Page Count: 240

Publication Date: May 2016

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Chris Huang completed her Bachelor of Fine Art in Taipei with two years of graphic design graduate education in New York. She has more than 20 years of design field experience, based in Chicago, and has been teaching graphic design at the Illinois Institute of Art for more than a decade.

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